Mcardle One Moment in the woods

Peter’s *Mcardle One Moment in the Woods* distils the experience of landscape into an attentive, contemporary meditation on looking. Working with a measured handling of tone and texture, the artist builds a woodland scene through layered mark-making and subtle shifts of light, allowing atmosphere to do as much work as description.

The composition privileges the fleeting—an interval of stillness—where the eye moves between depth and surface, detail and dissolution. In this way, the painting aligns with current conversations around ecology and the renewed cultural pull of the forest as both refuge and contested site.

Poised between observation and abstraction, it offers a quietly immersive encounter with nature’s immediacy.

Sir Peter Thomas Blake (born 25 June 1932) is an English pop artist. He co-created the sleeve design for the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. His other works include the covers for two of The Who's albums, the cover of the Band Aid single "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

, and the Live Aid concert poster. Blake also designed the 2012 Brit Award statuette. Blake is a prominent figure in the pop art movement. Central to his paintings is his interest in images from popular culture, which have infused his collages.

In 2002 he was knighted at Buckingham Palace for his servic…